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VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1944 NUMBER 43

AGGIES BATTLE MUSTANGS SATURDAYCorps Leadership Revamped For Fall TermButchofsky Replaces Strickhausen; Alley, Hightower, Palmer Promoted

Full Promotion List Issued by Commandant’s Office; Order to Be Effective Immediately

R. L. Butchofsky, ace blocker and defensive man on the Aggie football team, has been promoted to cadet colonel to replace George Strickhausen who served from June this year until Wednesday as leader of the A. & M. Cadet Corps.

Tom Alley, president of the senior class will succeed Calvin Brumley, editor of the Battalion, as executive officer of the corps and assistant to the-f-cadet colonel. Dan Hightower has been named to replace Mason Mat­hews as commander of first regi­ment and Jack Palmer takes over the duties of commander of the second regiment which were left open when Paul Olschner resigned. The corps officer and the command­ers of both regiments hold com­missions as cadet lieutenant colo­nels.

Farm-Industry Conference to Be Held Nov. 16-17A. & M. Professors Will Alternate As Session Chairman The Famous Texas Aggie Band

Further promotions' include a shakeup in the band with James Jarrett replacing John Veien as cade't major of the band, Stanley Knight takes over Butchofsky’s old commission as commander of the 2nd battalion in the 1st regiment, Roy Riddels succeeds H. Q. Sibley as commander of the 1st battalion 2nd regiment, and Wayne Kincan- non takes command of the 2nd battalion 2nd regiment from A. C. Jones. Harold Daily retains com­mand of the 1st battalion 1st regi­ment as does Charles Haenisch of the 3rd battalion 2nd regiment.

Preceeding this shakeup in cadet commissions Andy Jones and

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President To Speak At Exes Meeting In Dallas Friday

Friday at 7 p.m. the Dallas A. & Ivi. Club will honor President Gibb Gilchrist in the Lone Star Gas Auditorium in Dallas.

President of the Ex-Students Association, Rufus Peebles, will bring greetings to Gilchrist. He will also head the movement of many Aggies who will start pre­paring Friday afternoon for the A. & M.-S.M.U. football game in Dallas. Aggies from all over the state will attend the game Satur­day.

Present to speax on oehalf of the student body will be Tom Al­ley, president of the A. & M. Sen­ior Class. Greetings from former students now serving in the armed forces will be brought by H. E. Cunningham, ex-student, now sta­tioned at McClosky General Hos­pital in Temple.

President Gilchrist will speak and J. L. Pratt, president of the Dallas A. & M. Club will preside at the meeting.

At the Hotel Adolphus, preced­ing the dinner, Gilchrist and other A. & M. leaders will be guests of the Bonehead Club luncheon.

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Geology Club Forms; Elects New Officers

Wednesday night the A. & M. Geology Club met in room 115 of the Petroleum Building to reor­ganize, elect officers, and discuss the original constitution and by­laws, A. 0. Hamon, reporter, said.

He added that Ambrose Lyth was elected president; Tommy Penn, vice-president; Don Flanna- gan, secretary-treasurer; H. E. Wendt, social chairman; and him­self reporter.

Professor F. A. Burt served re­freshments to the large number present. Lyth, the president, urged all those majoring in geology or petroleum and those interested otherwise to attend the next meet­ing to be announced later. He de­clared that an interesting program will be presented.

A farm-industry conference to discuss common interests each business has in many current and prospective economic problems will be held at the Texas A. & M. Col­lege, Nov. 16-17 in cooperation with the National Association of Manu­facturers, Dean E. J. Kyle has announced.

This is one of a series of tget- together meetings between agri­culturists and businessmen which is expected to cover all 48 states with­in the next four years. It is the sec­ond to be held under this sponsor­ship in this State, the first meet­ing having been staged in 1939.

Similar conferences which have been held in other states this year have been hailed as outstandingly successful in the understanding and appreciation of common problems each group has learned from the other, Dean Kyle said. There has been agreement that a higher standard of living based on more jobs and higher production offers the best solution to special prob­lems of Southern States, as well as the foundation for a better America in postwar days, Dean Kyle reported.

Under the established plan for these conferences, each session will have a general chairman and a spe-

(See CONFERENCE, Page 4)

THESE BOYS WILL WEAR THE COLORS and carry the hopes of the Texas Aggies • through a gruelling 11-game football season this fall, meeting TCU, Arkansas, SMU, Rice and Texas, fellow mem­bers of the Southwest Conference, and also having games with Bryan Army Air Field, Texas Tech, Uni­versity of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University, North Texas Agricultural College, and the Uni­versity of Miami.

FRONT ROW, left to right: El­don Long, San Benito; Bill Walker, Stephenville; Monte Moncrief, Dal­las; Abe Abraham, El Paso; Bob Gary, Dallas; Bullet Gray, Gar­land; Chas. Shira, Hamlin; Joe Sacra, Denison.

SECOND ROW: Geo. McAllister,

Wool Uniforms Are Regulation From Friday at Retreat

Friday ni^lit the A. & M. Cadet Corps stood Retreat in wool uni­forms for the first time this se­mester. Woolen OD uniforms will be the regulation wear until the spring of 1945 when increasing temperatures will again necessi­tate the shift into cotton clothing.

The Exchange Store issued wool­en uniforms Thursday afternoon and all day Friday in order that the corps might have complete OD clothing for the trip of the corps to Dallas for the football game be­tween the Aggies and the Mustangs of S. M. U.

Prescribed for campus wear is the cap, either garrison or service, a woolen shirt, woolen trousers, and khaki tie. Wearing of the field jacket is optional but the field jacket may not be vorn with a cotton shirt. The regulation uni­form coat may be worn with either a cotton shirt or a woolen shirt the order from the Commandant’s

(See WOOL, Page 4)

Eden; Paul Yates, Fort Worth; Gene Spires, Abilene; Don Kingery, Lake Charles, La.; Jim Parmer, Mangum, Okla.; Bob Butchofsky, Ysleta; Jimmy Cashion, College Station; Mann Scott, Athens; Da­mon Tassos, San Antonio.

THIRD ROW: Sleepy League, Hamilton; Sparky Eberle, Sweet­water; Sammie Brice, San Anto­nio; Buddy Allen, El Paso; Mike Demetrios, Galveston; Hub Ellis, Kilgore; Don Nicholas, Mineral Wells; Bobby Goff, Kenedy; Dean Denton, Harlingen; Jim Mitchell, Ranger.

FOURTH ROW: Dusty Daniel,Kerrville; Stubby Matthews, San Antonio; Stubby Stalsby, Crosby; Jim Mizell, Conroe; Walter Hig­gins, Galveston; Milton Cherno,

Longhorn Sales Rate Must Rise

Only 1100 Copies Ordered; 1500 Must Be Sold

Sales of the 1945-46 Longhorn are lagging, according to the editor, Marc Smith, who states that only 1100 have been purchased to date, whereas 1500 paid subscriptions will be required to meet the costs of publication.

The annual now in the process of being formed will be the first to appear since May, 1943. It will al­so mark the 50th anniversary of the Longhorn, which was first published in 1894. Although short­ages have presented problems, they are being successfully overcome as they arise. The annual will con­tain the customary sections, nine of them in all, which cover every

(See LONGHORN, Page 4)

El Paso; Vernon Schmidt, Troy; Morton Shefts, San Antonio; Tiny Sparkman, San Antonio; Pete Odoms, McAllen; cotton Howell, Nacogdoches; Ray Fincher, Bur­ton.

FIFTH ROW: Jim. Voss, Jones­boro; Red Ewald, Maxwell; Wid Crawford, Eastland; Blackie Haynes, Vidor; Frank Bless, Hon­do; Bob Koenig, Ingleside; Henry Lewis, New Waverly; Harry Uthoff, Celina; A1 Rettig, Came­ron; Scooter Yeargain, Dallas; Jimmy Mortensen, Winter Haven; Roger Brown, Dayton; Dan Burch, Donna; Claude Richey, Austin; Harold Buckner, Cleburne.

TOP ROW: Homer H. Norton, head coach; Bill James, line coach; Pete Suderman, assistant student

Distinguished Student List Is Announced

According to a list released by the Academic Council, eighty-five tnen designated “Distinguished Students” for last summer’s semes­ter. These men are those who averaged 2.25 grade points for each semester hour of a course with the usual load.

Of this number, 3 were graduate students; 8 seniors; 5 juniors; 18 sophomores, and 51 freshmen. The School of Engineering had 58 dis­tinguished students; the Veterina­ry Medicine and Agriculture Schools, 10 each, and the School of Arts and Sciences, 7.

One underclassman and one graduate student averaged 3.00, the highest possible grade. Mal­colm A. Horton, a freshman taking Mechanical Engineering was the only undergraduate to make all A’s, and William K. Anderson, taking Doctor’s work in Chemis­try, was the only graduate student to do so.

High man for the Senior Class (See DISTINGUISHED. Page 4)

manager; Malcolm Fluitt, Marble Falls; Herb Carter, Stamford; Bob Horne, Plainview; John Wil­liams, Ozona; Bob Reagan, Kerr­ville; Manning Smith, backfield coach; Tommy Mumane, student manager; Pete Jones, business man­ager of athletics and assistant coach; Lil Dimmitt, trainer and assistant coach.

The squad includes nine letter- men from the 1943 team: BobButchofsky and Geo. McAllister, backs; Gary and Tassos, centers; Eberle, Moncrief and Shira, tack­les, and Darnell (not in picture) and Long, ends. Five squadman from the 1943 team also are back: League, Mizell, Sacra, Uthoff, and Yeargain.

Texas Aggie Football Team

Entire Student Body Goes To Dallas To Attend Game

Reg-ular Lineup to Start For Aggies; Kickoff at 2:30 In Ownby Stadium

Anything goes Saturday afternoon in Ownby Stadium at Dallas when the Aggies of Texas A. & M. tangle with the Mustangs of S. M. U.. This game will have no bearing on the outcome of the conference race, but prospects are bright that one of the most thrilling games of the year will be reeled off.----------------------------------------- ;--------f

Valentine Vicki Presented Sat. As Aggie Sweetheart

Saturday Vicki Moran, the girl with valentines in her eyes, will be presented to the crowd at the Aggie-S.M.U. football game as the Aggie Sweetheart of 1944. She was selected on October 8 but not until tomorrow will she officially be the Aggie Sweetheart when Tom Alley, president of the senior class, gives to her two dozen living-red sweet­heart roses at halftime.

George Strickhausen will escort her on the field and the eleven remaining nominees from TSCW, from which the sweetheart was se­lected, will form a court of honor which will be escorted by 11 senior Aggie judges who selected the sweetheart originally from the group of 12 nominees from the senior, junior, and sophomore classes at TSCW. Miss Moran will precede the court of honor onto the field while the Aggie Band plays “Let Me Call You Sweet­heart.”

Following the march onto the field the entire procession will halt while the Aggie corps gives “La­dies” in honor of the visiting girls from TSCW. Immediately follow­ing this the band will play the “Spirit of Aggieland” upon the completion of which Tom Alley will present the flowers. The group will march from the field as the band plays the symbolic Aggie song, “The Twelfth Man.”

This will complete the ceremony of presentation but throughout the remainder of the year Miss Moran will be the Aggie Sweetheart and represent them wherever there is an occasion demanding the appear­ance of a girl to represent the Ag­gies.

Last year the Aggies chose “Cis- (See VICKI, Page 4)

Saturday’s classes were made up during the last week in order that the whole Corps could make the trip to Dallas for the game. It is expected that nearly two-thousand Aggies will invade the Mustang’s territory on Saturday, in order to give the team backing' of the famous Twelfth Man. Numerous methods of transportation are ex­pected to be in use, including auto­mobile, wagon, cart, and even air­planes. The general drift north­ward started about Wednesday night when those who were able to cut their classes began to leave.

In years pa:st the annual clash between these two schools has been one of the best drawing cards in the Southwest, and although both teams are out of the conference race this year, none of the color

-is expected to be extracted.This will be homecoming day for

the Mustangs and a crowd of about 18,000 is due to witness the con­test. According to all reports, the Methodists have been pointing to this game all season, and are anxious to give a good account of themselves before the home­coming crowd.

Not since 1938 have the Mus­tangs been able to win from A. &M. , and that year a field goal gave them a 10-7 victory. The Aggie’s victory march has been unbroken for the past five seasons, last year’s “Kiddie Korps” winning 22-10.

The Ponies have failed to com­pile a very impressive record thus far in 19.44, winning only two games while losing four. The Mus­tangs hold victories over the weakN. T.A.C. eleven and Southwestern, while they have fallen before Ran­dolph Field, Rice, Tulane, and Tex­as. The Aggies’ record is only slightly more impressive as they hold victories over Bryan Field, Texas Tech, L.S.U., and N.T.A.C. while losing to Oklahoma, T.C.U., and Arkansas.

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Twelfth Man Returns To Dallas Where It Was Born 23 Years Ago

Readiness for personal service, a desire to support and devotion each for the other and all for their school have embued all Texas A. &. M. College Students with a spirit of unity that is almost sa­cred. And the reverence due it, as expressed in the “Twelfth Man”, has grown more vererable from year to year.

Born in a rock-em and sock-em intersectional football game in Dal­las 23 years ago, this living and pulsing spirit is expressed in a football term—the twelfth man on the team, for each student gets on his feet at the opening kick off and remains standing through the game until the final whistle or gun as a symbol of readiness for duty should the eleven men on the gridiron need assistance and re­placement.

Since the start of the war A. & M. has sent a call for the twelfth man at the beginning of every football season apd each time the corps has responded mightily. The famed “Kiddie Korps” of 1943, who lost only to Texas university in regular season competition, was made up in a large part of men who responded to Coach Homer Norton’s plea to the twelfth man.

This season the football team is again made up in a measure by

men who responded to the spirit of the twelfth man. Only nine men returned from last season who had ever worn an college football uniform.

The Twelfth Man tradition was born in Dallas, Texas, on January 2, 1922. The Praying Colonels of Centre College had electrified the football world in the 1921 season by turning up with a wonder team. They had surprised the nation’s sports lovers by licking one of the greatest Harvard football teams 6 to 0. On the Centre team were several boys who had begun their football careers at North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas. These boys not only were ready but eager to show their prowess before Tex­as home-folks. Talk grew and grew of matching a game between Cen­tre College and a team from the Southwest Conference. That meant Texas A. & M. College as the host team, as A. & M. had won the Conference title in the 1921 sea­son.

As the game went on A. & M. Coach Dana Bible saw his light but fast backs one by one being car­ried off the field. With a goodly portion of the game yet to be played, Bible was down to one backfield substitute. Then he re-

. (See TWELFTH, Page 2)